In 2022, the president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the executive director of Washington-Baltimore News Guild Local 32035, which now represents about half of SPLC’s employees, announced a collective-bargaining agreement. The new contract was “historic,” said Esteban Gil, an SPLC union negotiator. “The more of us in our field who unionize,” he added, “the better we can serve our missions by practicing what we preach.”
The effort to unionize the far-left advocacy organization was launched in 2019 after a group of employees complained that SPLC leadership had engaged in sexual and racial discrimination. The SPLC’s board ultimately fired Morris Dees, the group’s co-founder, and the organization’s legal director was forced to resign.
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James Piereson is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Naomi Schaefer Riley is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum.
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